#tbt

[nanila]

This is a scanned photo of my mom and dad with their arms around one another at Waimea Canyon in Kauai, Hawai'i. I love this photo partly because they both look happy, and partly because this is how they always appear in my mind. I know they have white hair and stooped shoulders now, but my brain fails to see that unless they're right in front of me, which doesn't happen very often since they live so far away.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I'm the same:the way I remember my parents is probably fifteen years old now, except when they're right in front of me.

[nanila]

I still can't quite accept that they have white hair.

[wohali]

They look like such the happy couple :) how fantastic.

[nanila]

They were. I believe (insofar as a child is allowed to know the state of their parents' relationship) they have been for the bulk of their marriage.

[pulchritude]

That's a really lovely photo!

[nanila]

It is, isn't it? I've just realised that it must have been my grandmother who took it. She had a good eye.

[omnipotent]

Awww, this is a sweet photo. They look so adoring of each other here.

[nanila]

They do! Also, you made me realise that they'd been married for eight or nine years when the photo was taken. They chose well.